Donald Trump had recently finished a familiar riff about banning gender transition surgery for children when the former president, speaking to an audience of Evangelical voters, moved on to something new: a policy that would affect transgender adults.
“I will ban all taxpayer funding for sex or gender transitions at any age,” said Trump, receiving thunderous applause at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington last month. The Republican leader, who moments earlier had also pledged to reinstate a ban on transgender men and women serving in the military, paused for several seconds to soak in the crowd’s adulation.
It’s the kind of moment — and the type of policy — increasingly common on the GOP presidential campaign trail this year.
The thing is, it aint polyjuice potion. Drugs rarely have one specific use, and a law like this can easily bleed over into other treatments drugs being banned.
Especially HRT meds, which are extremely common and prescribed for all sorts of things for cis folks, because as it turns out, a lot of different conditions require some adjustments to your sex hormones. Like, when it’s prescribed to trans folks, the written diagnosis is pretty much just “generic endocrine condition” - gotta imagine there’s quite a few more of those out there. To say nothing of intersex folks…